CJI DY Chandrachud reprimanded a petitioner for using informal language in court, emphasising the importance of decorum.
Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Monday reprimanded a petitioner for using the informal “yeah” in the courtroom. Reminding the petitioner of courtroom decorum, the CJI also said he was “little allergic to people saying Yeah”, a courtroom report with Bar and Bench stated.
“Don’t say ‘yeah’, say ‘yes’. This is not a coffee shop, this is a court,” CJI Chandrachud said.
“I am a little allergic to people saying ‘yeah’,” he further said.
This came while the court was hearing a case wherein the petitioner sought an in-house enquiry against a judge for not granting him relief.
The litigant, a party-in-person, mentioned a petition in which he had added retired Chief Justice of India Justice Ranjan Gogoi as a respondent. He said that the petition was filed in May 2018.
Expressing surprise and dismay at the petition, the CJI told the party, “How can you file a PIL with the judge as a respondent? There has to be some dignity. You cannot just say I want an in-house inquiry against a judge. Justice Ranjan Gogoi was a former judge of the Supreme Court. He retired as the Chief Justice of India. You cannot say I want an in-house inquiry against a judge because you did not succeed before the bench. Sorry, we cannot tolerate this.”
The litigant said that Justice Gogoi had wrongfully dismissed his petition, challenging his termination from service, relying on an illegal statement and that there were “gross errors of law” in the judgment.
“Right or wrong, there is a final judgment by the Supreme Court. Your review has been dismissed. Now you have to file a curative, but you say you don’t want to file a curative,” the CJI told him.
WHEN CJI CHANDRACHUD ASKED A LAWYER TO LOWER HIS VOICE
On September 9, during a hearing of the Kolkata rape and murder case, CJI Chandrachud reprimanded a lawyer for raising his voice during the hearing and asked him to lower his voice.
The controversy unfolded when senior advocate Kapil Sibal presented evidence including videos and photographs to the court, alleging that Bagchi, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, had been involved in throwing stones at a protest related to the case.
Bagchi responded by questioning the credibility of Sibal’s claims, leading to a heated exchange.
CJI Chandrachud, addressing Bagchi directly, remarked, “Can you first lower your pitch? Listen to the Chief Justice, lower your pitch. You are addressing three judges in front of you, not the large audience who is watching these proceedings on the video conferencing platform.”
